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it’s about 16 k.m out of anuradapura lies mihintale remembered in national consciousness as the cradle of the sinhala buddhist civilisation, it is here that thera mahinda , son of the mauryan emperor asoka, met king tissa in the third century BC, as a result of which the king embraced buddhism…, in fact the name mihintale, which mean’s the ” plateau of mahinda” is derived from thera’s name..the mountain was also known as chetiya pabbata( the mountain of stupas).

on the western slope of the mountain is the main flight of steps that would take you to ambastala plain , it is a wide flight of steps.. perhaps the widest in sri lanka, and is concidered symbolic of the spiritual ascent of man.

no animal is as intimately connected with the history and culture of the island as the sri lankan elephant – indeed such was the regard in which they were held that killing one was formarly a capital offence, elephants are accorded an almost religious veneration on account of their size and strength, and play an important role in religious festivals across the country. nowhere more so than at the esala perahera in kandy.. where the tooth relic it self ( or at least its casket) is borne through the city by the maligawa tusker. ceremonial occasions aside, elephants have been put to many uses throughout the island’s history…dutugamunu went to war mounted on one , while later kings of anuradhapura used them to trample down the foundations of their city’s great religious monuments during the kandyan era, elephants were used

www.tour-lanka travel east-coast beaches called pasikudah, kalkudah , trincomalee and batticaloa…..batticaloa is famous in sri lanken folklore for it’s singing fish.... according to tradition, between april to september a strange noice….described variously as resembling a plucked guitar or violin string, or the sound produced by rubbing a wet finger around the rim of a glass-can be heard issuing from the depths of the lagoon…..the singing is allegedly strongest on full moon nights….though no one knows exactly what causes it- and indeed some people say the entire story is just an old wives’ tale..the most popular explanation is that it’s produced by some form of marine life -anything from catfish to mussels- while another theory states that it’s made by water flowing between boulders on the lagoon floor…the best way to listen

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